The Sun. — London, England, 1808-10-11 00:00:00

I To the Direaing Senate. . - bas!.. • All primary claims of the King of Prussia on the Duchy of Warsaw are to be transferred to France. HAMBURGII, SEPT. 25.—Cpunt 1-olk, an Officer of the Danish Guards, who was lately'sent to Paris with dispatches, passed through town On the 21st inst. on his return to Copenhagen:H(ideih.) ST. PETERSBURGII,, AUG. 20.—Notwithstanding the ferment which still prevails with regard to th political affairs of Europe, owing to the itatrignes of EnLland, and notwithstanding the constant exer tions of the British Cabinet to protra& the war, the friends of peace make themselves perfealy easy, while they see that the intimate connexion which unites the• Emperors of Russia and France remains unshaken. As long as this glorious connexion la: . sts between the two Imperial Courts, the tran gaillity of the Continent of Europe cannot be dis turbed in any material manner, although the mari time war may still be of long duration. The public of this capital, is therefore extremely anxious to learn any circumstance which prove , that 'good under standing, and have witnessed with enthusiasm and admiration the brilliant manner in which the festi val of NAPOLEON was lately celebrated in this me tropolis. FRONTIERS OF RUSSIA, SEPT. 21.—Certain de scriptions of persons have of late been very anxious to spread rumours of war, but they are most certain ly unfounded. The most perfea harmony prevails between Russia and Austria, and the most striking proots are daily observable that the most friendly .iWercourse continues to subsist between the two Courts. BkANDEKEURGR, SEPT. 17.—Last night a 'Prussian Courier, coining trout Paris, • passed through this • place to Konigsburgh, with the definitive Conven tion concluded on the sth inst. between Prince WIL,- LIAM and the French Minister of State, Cflam- rA G . We are informed that on the 16th inst. the Em peror of aVSSIA will arrive at Konigsburgh, and from fueuce go through Leipsie to Weimar, to have a c‘ . ..:nfer. , nce with the Emperor of FRANCE. Mar shtl who pissed through goes to compliment and accompany the Emperor ALEX ANDER. WAashw, SETT. i 2.—On the Bth inst. General DAyousr and his whole Staff set out for Breslau.— The tortress of Praga is occupied by French troops : the fortifications continue to be most actively aug mented by the French engineers; some houses are demolished, and the Convent of the Bernardines is eonyertel into a Citadel. KONICSRIIRGII, SEPT. B.—This day his Excellen cy the Russian Minister of State; Count VoN Ro ik:Aszow, arrived here. His Excellency the Prince of SAXE WEIMAR is also expected: FRANKFORT, SEPT. 10.-11 is said; but without any good grounds, the public' Prints, that there has been concluded an eveKlutit 4iliarre be tween three Great Powers. The Wirtemburgh Contingent has received orders to hold itself in rea diness to march ;-6000 Saxon troops are also to break up for France. On the 3d of September the Austrian Cabinet Courier, B`.YER, passed . through Stutgardt, on his way from Vienna to Paris ; and on the 6th another Austrian Courier, Ve77 NEUM A passed 'through the same from F'ars to Vienna. The last. troops of the Grand Army halted in our environs fur several days, having some difficulty in procuring provisions as well as carriages. Part of the Wirtemburgh troops, as well as a division of the light horse of Nassau, have already broken up for France. Marshal MoRTIER is still at Bareuth with his Staff, nor is it known when his corps is to march to the Rhine. BANKS of THE ELRE, SEPT. 20.—1 t is reported to-day, that the Swedish army in Finland has gain ed a considerabh advantage over, the Russians.—lt -is not true that the Emperor FRANCIS will be pre sent at the conference between the Emperors ALEX ANDER. and NAPOLEON, at Weimar.—An American Ship is to sad from Hamburgh before the RAI] of October, by special leave of the French Government. inc Consul at that place, Mr. FORBES, is most Xe6jvlcly Anti-English, or rather an avowed enemy to the British nation. The ship is to touch at seve ral ports and it will be very proper for his Britannic Majesiy'scruizers to examine her. BCONAI'ARTE is sail to be already in S.iiony. The Spanish campaign is io • be a most dreadful one ; 300,000 Frenchmen are to ir,o employed in it unch GeneralsNEY, BEs- ER, LASSES, MA;SN.A.,JOUi..DAN, DA VOUST, and most of the VIENNA, SiVT. 7.--LWe learn that a permanent levy en maivels in.contemplation for Hungary and OA in Austria a third reerve is to be formed. GpT.HA, SEPT. 13.—This day the French grand Park of Artillery passed through our city to Erfurth, to transport which 2,700 horses were put in requi sition. • Sr. PZTERSBURC:f., AUGUST 30.--The Bavarian t.mbassador, Chevalier : DE BR A . Y, is arrived here. - The. Swedish. .Prisoners la War are sent by the Emperor's con - I . :rand to this city, with their wives cod, children . they receive tree quarters, firing, and candle-,-the Then the legal monthly ration of provi sions; and the women and children, every one, half a monthly ration. As some of the women, how fit'er, demand alms. in the streets, the .Minister litllloUnCti to the Plit)liC, not to consider them as . b . .4;g:irs, as the crown allows to the men ',a daily pay of to copeekA, and to the WQMCII and children five copecks per By an Ukase to the areain,g Senate, the Empe r.); pascs the following Decree : .Owing to the present circumstances: of the v ,: ar , we fi n d it necessary that the foreign goods in into Russia should have exact certi ficates of their not being the produce of tho countries with which Russia is at war. In c..ise quence of which we command-, - , Ist, By the Ukase of April g, 1793, all Vessels bound to Russian Ports from foreign countries, shall lave certificates specifying their cargoes, shewing them not to be the produce of England or Sweden, and, above al, produce of their Colonles. An those goodi.must :be provided with the satac certificates that are imported over our frontiers by "land;. 2d, These certificates must he granted by Russian Consuls, where there arc any ; where there are none, by the Magistrates of those ,places from which the cargo is exported. If there are Russian Missions in those places where there are, no Russian Consuls, the certificates of the Magistrates must be revised in the Office of the Mission. ad, Without these certificates, no foreign, goods shall enter the Russian territories, but be sent off within the limited time; nor shall any Russian produce be shipped on board of vessels that bring such goods. 4th, From these general principles are to be ex. , cepted, the Turkish produce of other countries, or Asia, imported in the ports of the Black Sea, the Sea of Azou, the Caspian Sea. sth, This measore shall be put in force from the first of January of the ensuing year, 1809. St. Petersburgh, July 3 t, iBoB. LEFT BANKS OF THE RHINE, SEPT. 16.—A1l the roads leading from Mentz -to the interior of France. are now covered with troops coming from the Grand Army and going to Spain. They follow quickly One corps after another, and waggons are in readi 7 ness to transport them, to prevent them being de tained; those who-march through Mentz, proceed in four different roads. The first column through Treves, Luxemburgh, Sedan, Paris, °dewy, and Bourdeaux, to Bayonne. The second tlirough"Xlzey, Metz, Rheims, Blois, and BTardeaux. The thin thro' Landau, Luneville, Chalons, Bourdeaux, and Ba yonne ; and the fourth. through Wurms, spires, Strasburgh, Colorer, and Perpignan. The troops marching through Wesel :;(3- into Belgium, and then, like the rest, to Spain. NISMES, AU G. 25.- - -Htre, and in our environs we expect 14,000 Poriv.:L:tlese-- 7 6000 horse are ar rived here, to all -fine troops. The wounded in the frontier towns of France, borderin;:; ( 7 , 7'. Spain, have been removed far ther into the of the country for their better accommodat; -, 7„ Aniongst others - an hospital has been estat at Mont pellier.—(A eue Zeitzaw). BANK- ; - A. - E ELBE, SEPT, 20.--Titere has been a tiot in the c.ty of Brunsv-ick I:::twetn, the Frelk.:! Gens'-D'armes and some Uf the citizths, in the Gems-d'ArtneA 111:ve been severely handled. The town of Lnal.,..vick Iris in conse quence receive ; refit numbar of troops, and the matter is to :).; ,her' investigate(', • Baron Prt.i . oian Prirct A4iais ter of State, has been tli.italised from ht. office in conse quence of the letter of his whicts: , was inserted in the French ilLnileur, and in whica he is denounced as an enemy to France as will a!) to his King. It is said to be ultimately re,;nlve4, on the part of France, not to evacuate Prus ia ; 4 ; ," nor to a dmit the King a Member of the Rhenist. Confederation. MAILS. ARR. Dublin, 2 Waterford. Dvs-..2 GOttellbUrgh, PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVIC O'CLOCK. Consul' 661 TH E STN. [DIEM QUIS DICILAZ PALSUNI AUDEAT ? L 0 N D 0 N, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1808. We have this day continued our Extraas from the Hamburgh Papers. The Prussian territories are, it is stated, at length to be evacuated, with the ex ception of Stettin, Custrin, and Gtogan. BUONAPARTE has consented to this Measure for the present, - because he wants to employ his troops in Spain ; but we have no doubt that if he should be successful in that quarter, the Prussian dominions will be again occupied by French troops. Although these Papers do not contain any very positive information respeet ing the designs of Austria, yet it is obvious, from several articles which are entirely of French diEtation, that the preparations of the former have given. BUONAPARTE considerable uneasiness, and_ that he is not quite at ease with regard to the disposition of the latter.. The - objeEtions made by the Russian Senate to the journey of the Emperor cannot be very acceptable to BUONAPARTE, and must tend very much to augment the general dis content which prevails in Russia. Parliament :will be further prorogued, so as not to meet till after C:lirtsimas. It is reporieJ that His Majesty's Ministers have received dispaiehcs from Sir HEW DALRY/qi:LE, in which he takes upon himself the whole responsibility of the convention, and declares himself prepared to justify it as a measure advisable and necessary, Under all the circumstances. . Mr. CouivrENAy, one of the Toint Deputy , Pay masters General, is attached, for the present, to Sir DAVID o,wi,n's Army. The Marquis JIOMANA, with Mr. FEM., their Secretaries .and suites, embarked on Sunday on board the Semiramis, which sailed immediately for Spain. The Sentirmais is to land the Marquis at Coru6na, and .thence to proceed with Mr. fttEmi to Cadiz, AN i-lI:iTOP:ICAL RECITAL ()V THE CAMPAIGN (11? BUn- N~lpt►i;a Ii ITALY, IN THE YLAIZS 1736 AND 1797. FIRST COMBAT OF DECO, OR, TH& CArTVIRE OF THIS FORT BY THE FRENCH. If . we may credit the official report of BUONA PARTE, no viaory was ever more rapid and corn pleat than this first attack on Dego. A few hours only were required to dislodge the garrison, to pur sue the enemy, to surround him, and make from seven to nine thousand prisoners ! The language of this truly curious report is as follows : About one o'clock in the afternoon General MASSENA turned the enemy's left, which occupied the strong lines and redoubts of the village, of Dego. —General BOYER cut off his retreat.—The enemy, surrounded on all sides, had not even time to capi tulate : our columns scattered terror and death, and flight amongst them.—Our troops pursued them with the greatest fury. General LA HARPS pressed them vigorously. We made, before night, from seven to nine thousand prisoners 1! !" It would be difficult to spea'k with more empha sis, in giving an account of the most glorious vic tories ; and it would be almost impossible for any other than BUONAPARTE to speak with less truth. Mark now the fats as they really occurred ; and without the slightest deviation from the most rigid accuracy. On the t2th of April, about noon, the' French, who had met .with nothing to retard their march, and who had it in their power to take the most ad vantageous positions, began to cannonade Dego. They were answered by all the artillery of the Aus tro-Sardinian redoubts, and the fire continued, with out interruption, On both sides for two. hours. A.t length the French, eager to get possession of the fort, where they expeded to find a considerable booty, determined on a general assault. It was made on all points, and repeated several times. But on each attempt the cannon of the redoubts, which were loaded with grape-shot, and the fire of the musketry, which was extremely well direeled, dis concerted the assailants, and destroyed va4t numbers of them ; so that after three or four fruitless as saults, which .cost them a prodigious loss of the French recommenced their cannonade, and con tinued it till night. had halted at Deno all that day : in thfr evening I received orders to retire, with a part of the bag- gage, to Montalto, a village in the rear of Dego, in the neighbourhood,ofSpiguo, and about two hours march frOm it. On the road, I bad the pleasure of meeting - two Austrian Battalions (of ,Wilhern and Schroeder), who had made a forced march from Acqui, the instant the cannonade was heard there; a►►d who entered Dego at an early hour 'the same night. I had another ;Measure, not less graffyiOg. I was called up at Montalto, about eleven that even ing, by the Commanders of two other Corps, who were on the march to reinforce Dego : one was Colonel of the Sardinian Regiment of Montferrat, the other was Major of the third Battalion of Teick measter. The instant of their arrival, both of them wrote to D'ARGRNTEAU, WIM was at Paretto. I sent one of my ordinaries v,.ith the letter, who brought back an answer by break of day. D'Alt- GENTEAU ordered the Colonel to march for D^go without delay : he did so and arrived there the morn ing of the 13th, without any accident. As to the Major, D'ARGENTE AU permitted him to. refresh his troops at Montalto, and to wait there' till he heard the recommencement of the cannonade at Dego. This permission was not improper; - the, battalion had come all the way from Vienna, by forced marches; but unfortunately this short halt was fatal to it : for the rest, its calamity was truly glorious. It is one of those military faas, which the lovers of courage and loyalty delight to hear re counted, and which every friend to honour would justly wish to preserve. The attack on Dego recommenced on the 13th of April, at eight in the morning; but it was ten be fore the battalion was able to march. In the inter val, a French column, which was that. of General Boy ER, had pushed forward to the road between Dego and Spigno, and succeeded in cutting off all communication between VARGENTEA LI and BEAU LIEU, the former of whom was at Paretto, and the latter at Acqui. The Commanding Officer at Devi had observed this movement, but was unable to pre-, vent it, being :then fully engaged in repelling the attacks of the enemy, which were now extremely vigorous. One of the centinels of this French column dis covered the Austrian battalion on its march to Dego, and immediately made the signal of an enemy's ap proach. It was supposed at first that it was the corps which D'ARGF.NTEAU commanded, or that of BEAULIEU, from Acqui,•and the whole column im me:iiately inarched to reconnoitre it. Judge their surprise, : when they saw that this body which: had so much alarmed them, was only a single bat'l talion of a thousandnmen. Great; however, as their sLirpiise v6s, it infinitely increased, w ebsvrvelthat this handful of men, tar from hen they being iu- timidated at their superior num')ers, and raking t‘) fliglit,'firmly awaited their attack o,i a ng ground , where the Major had ranged them in order u battle. Before. the action began, the whole column e ) tie. aims d with loud and distinct cries, " Throw (low() yqu i rarirts,.atid surrender to the soldiers of liter`v The only answer was, a general. discharge of mos" quetry, and of two field pieces loaded with grape. -- Immediately began one of the must furious contests imaginable; and in spite of the immense superiority of the French, the Austrians kept up a brisk nte upon them for more than an hour. At the end of this time, the French, who little expected so deSperate a resistance, changed the Mode 'of . attack, and resolved to surround the residue of the 'battalion 'with the bayonet. Unfortunattdy, in the very hottest of the charge, the gallant leader of this gallant band * was severely wounded. His fate disconcerted and discouraged his men, and they n nished by falling back, and at length sutre nderinbc The Major, wounded as he was, e ffected his es ca p e, by the assistance of some of the soldiers, who c 0 0: veyed him to a place of security. I wa s P reser" when his wounds were dressed at Montalto, wt;erB be rec,unted the facts which I have just stated' and of most of which I was myself an eye- witness, MIX' the brow of a hill. very near the field o f wale. - If, during th , _t combat, IYARGENTEAU had arrive with his troops, and supported this natation, liB., alight have repulsed the enemy's column, re-ope ned the communication between Acqui and De g o, and preserved this last post; but although he had writtell to iiOCGAVINA that he would' fly to tile buceour of Dego, the instant he heard the canno nade, and that itoccm'lNA, retying on tits word, had p ositivelY as'sUreethe Sardinian Colonel of it , w h en he gall° „ tirecOmmand of the post, D'ARGENTEAU n,;° -made 'his appearance until it was -too late, that say, full two hours after the lamentable destruction of that most admitable Battalion ! He made hi s appearanee, indeed,, but, as base a COWard as he had been at Montenotte, he betook hitt-1501' again to flight, after a slight skirmish, and fell back upon Spigno. His retreat was effeated in a nig ht uncommonly dark, and in the midst of a most vie" lent fall of rain. The troops reached Bistagno, village about eight miles froin Acqui, but the pri 34 dent General passed the night at Spigno, with . big Staff . , and Mute he received the intelligence of t ils . surrender of Dego, which took place on the 14111 t A hi p ' n l o h il is w s h t i t c rr h ender cannot possibly attach all bia-11 :: to thesCommcaonudlidng be O fticer : he had done °° ,f honour and a soldier, exiDneadeedrenicreoloolgiceis pot Tuc but this post was no longer tenable whole of his ammunition was expended, and it f l i t was only when he saw himself reduced to last extremity, that he propos , d BLIQNAPAnTE says, in his dispatches, that " 114 ' 1. . 5 was not time to capitulate." Ala assertion of th i s nature must astonish _those who, like me, kAo that ` w hat the afttic'x lasted three whole days ! but it astonish those who remark how fun of bomba st and exaggeration BUONAPARTE constantly is, whea to capitulate. e he speaks of his success. His passion, or rather 10 frenzy, is to pass for a CAESAR, Who can alway s say ' t " came, saw, and overcame." If tie had said tha t the Coinmandau an t surrendOred without y capo-113‘ tion, he would have said th e truth. But vir:r ie t a f be 'thus surrender.? From the most Iloilo -03 sv-Ith the c g a r t e r . e te 7 b i r i a a v v e it r i y g , t i ttl i e ces i s; e i g n u tl e y nt re a p ri u d is t e a ci r y iol3 - 5 - assau lts any meansof the enemy, lie had no longer of defence lett : theu,• and 'Wit till Olen; lie Ia demanded to capitulate; bur was refitsed. he the less estimable for this ? And is tut iv a3 who, on such an occasion, reuses to grant any ternisi superior to him, who only asks for theta a moment's longer resistance would have bee° madness ? This brave man, then, and his garrison, be+ irsi° sTo prisoners of war. And. now it is that 13trosit" r id 01 0115 : triumphs,with an air of vain glory truly DO ' " I have made," says he, " from seven to n t i O 7 sand prisoners ; I have taken a Lieutenant-G°er twenty or thirty Colonels, live Austrian net tati°ll t : ' three Sardinian regiments, three corn panics ot four of artillery, and an equal number of grenadi ers. We are obliged to reduce this calculation a !jai% I. There were only three Sardinian regitneitt consequently, at most, three Colonels and thin Lieutenant-Colonels. 2. The five Austrian battalionS had but five c --/ bra y? Officers, and from these must be ex ce p ted the Major of the regiment of "Tick-measter, e ' ''lll ; ed, notwithstanding his wound. Thus we have t 1 thirty Colonels reduced to ten. 3. Instead of four companies of artillery, there vas. but one. three compan ies of Croats must be e n ' I sincerely regret that the n ame of this brave a nd d rec°ir.. tinguisbed officer has escaped my m.nriory I only t lea lhat he was a Bra b ant i n e Baron ; and that e. " Vienna, awl the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. in 1 80 5, wher e, as t %. as told, he had a